Let Us Be Perfectly Clear is a collection of Paul Hornschemeier’s full colour short stories and shows off his playful experimental side and his protean stylistic verve. Perfectly Clear brings back into print stories that Hornschemeier published in a variety of sources —his own self-published Forlorn Funnies, as well as strips that originally appeared in independent magazines and papers — none of which has been available to the book trade.

The book is designed as a “flip book” in the tradition of the old Ace paperbacks, with one side featuring comedic work (or as comedic as Hornschemeier's mind allows), and the other decidedly more morose. With almost every page, we see a new style, a new direction; with the resultant effect being that of an anthology by creators of vastly contrasting sensibilities.

Let Us Be Perfectly Clear demonstrates Paul Hornschemeier’s versatility and breadth in an elegantly produced book that will appeal to connoisseurs of contemporary, cutting-edge cartoons and graphic novels.

Fantagraphics, hardback, 136 pages, published April 2007